4 GWU football players earn weekly honors

Published: Monday, October 29, 2012 at 04:20 PM.

The Gardner-Webb football team had four players collect honors Monday for their efforts in a 38-7 win against VMI on Saturday.

GWU quarterback Lucas Beatty was Big South Offensive Player of the Week, punter Bo Lindsey took Special Teams Player of the Week and receiver Demarcus White claimed Freshman of the Week recognition.

Return man J.J. Hubbard is College Football Performance Awards’ National FCS Punt Returner of the Week.

Beatty posted his third 300-yard passing performance of the season, becoming the first Gardner-Webb quarterback to do so since Devin Campbell in 2008. The 6-foot-2, 220-pounder completed 24-of-32 attempts for 328 yards and a career-high four touchdowns — tying a record for most scoring passes in a Big South game for a Gardner-Webb quarterback set by Nick Roberts at VMI on Oct. 18, 2003.

Beatty’s effort marked the first time in 10 years that a Gardner-Webb quarterback has passed for more than 300 yards and four touchdowns in the same game, with Jeremy Martin the last to do so against Savannah State on Nov. 16, 2002 (351 yards, 5 TDs).

In the third quarter alone, he completed 7-of-11 passes for 177 yards and three touchdowns — including scoring tosses of 64 and 47 yards to White.

The 202.35 single-game pass efficiency rating is the highest of Beatty’s career. The margin of victory in Saturday’s game is the largest for Gardner-Webb (2-6, 1-2 Big South) in league play since a 46-0 win over Charleston Southern on Nov. 3, 2003.

The Gardner-Webb football team had four players collect honors Monday for their efforts in a 38-7 win against VMI on Saturday.

GWU quarterback Lucas Beatty was Big South Offensive Player of the Week, punter Bo Lindsey took Special Teams Player of the Week and receiver Demarcus White claimed Freshman of the Week recognition.

Return man J.J. Hubbard is College Football Performance Awards’ National FCS Punt Returner of the Week.

Beatty posted his third 300-yard passing performance of the season, becoming the first Gardner-Webb quarterback to do so since Devin Campbell in 2008. The 6-foot-2, 220-pounder completed 24-of-32 attempts for 328 yards and a career-high four touchdowns — tying a record for most scoring passes in a Big South game for a Gardner-Webb quarterback set by Nick Roberts at VMI on Oct. 18, 2003.

Beatty’s effort marked the first time in 10 years that a Gardner-Webb quarterback has passed for more than 300 yards and four touchdowns in the same game, with Jeremy Martin the last to do so against Savannah State on Nov. 16, 2002 (351 yards, 5 TDs).

In the third quarter alone, he completed 7-of-11 passes for 177 yards and three touchdowns — including scoring tosses of 64 and 47 yards to White.

The 202.35 single-game pass efficiency rating is the highest of Beatty’s career. The margin of victory in Saturday’s game is the largest for Gardner-Webb (2-6, 1-2 Big South) in league play since a 46-0 win over Charleston Southern on Nov. 3, 2003.

Beatty now leads the Big South Conference with 1,822 yards passing through eight games (227.8 yards per game). He also leads the league in completions (165) and ranks second with a 67.6 completion percentage. Beatty is averaging 289.3 yards per game in Big South play through three games.

College Sports Madness also named Beatty its Big South Conference Offensive Player of the Week following Saturday’s performance.

Lindsey averaged 46.8 yards on five punts against VMI. The senior standout pinned punts at the 15 and 5-yard lines and boomed punts of 52, 51 and 50 yards against the Keydets.

Lindsey leads the Big South in punting with an average of 43.2 yards and has 12 punts of 50 yards or longer. He also has pinned 12 punts inside the 20-yard line in 2012.

White had a breakout game against the Keydets, catching three passes for 113 yards and two touchdowns. He started the Runnin’ Bulldogs’ third quarter flurry with a 64-yard touchdown on GWU’s first possession of the second half, outrunning the VMI defense to the end zone.

White, who entered the game with just two catches for 12 yards this season, added a 47-yard scoring catch with 2:06 to play in the third quarter to cap the game’s scoring.

Hubbard averaged 25.7 yards on three punt returns Saturday. The 5-foot-8, 170-pound speedster had two long returns of 30 and 47 yards — with his 30-yarder setting up a Gardner-Webb touchdown in the third quarter.

The slippery sophomore added a 35-yard kickoff return to set up another score.

Gardner-Webb hosts Coastal Carolina at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Spangler Stadium in the ESPN3 Big South Game of the Week.